Amnesias {Korsakoff syndrome}| can have inattentiveness, poor recent memory, retrograde amnesia, anterograde amnesia, and time and place disorientation. Chronic alcoholics with poor nutrition can have Korsakoff syndrome. It affects third-ventricle floor, thalamus dorsomedial nucleus, hippocampal region, mamillary bodies, and frontal lobes [Korsakoff, 1887] [Korsakoff, 1890].
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